Lewis H. Lapham Quotes

Of what does politics consist except the making of imperfect decisions, many of them unjust and quite a few of them deadly?

Lewis H. Lapham

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: editor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 8, 1935

Topics

PoliticsDecisionsImperfectUnjust

Israel is a mishmash of other cultures. It's like New Orleans; it's a meltdown of other cultures.

Anat Cohen

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I do smoke in real life. A lot. We're all smoking right now in fact.

Michael Imperioli

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If it were a choice between putting ads on Wikipedia or shutting down Wikipedia, we would then very reluctantly consider putting ads on Wikipedia.

Sue Gardner

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On one hand, the idea of sending pictures off into the vastness of space and time seems nonsensical. On the other, I felt like the gesture carried an enormous amount of responsibility.

Trevor Paglen

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I always work with two cameras. Its kind of like I'm hypnotizing the subject with the flashing. It's a bombardment of action, flashes, and I think it helps them to ease into the process.

Juergen Teller

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Mixing humour and harsh reality is a very human behaviour, it's the way people stay sane in their daily lives.

Jorge Garcia

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Life should not be a funeral march to the grave. We should have the capacity for being able to lift up not just public dialogue, but lift up each other in a greater cause of nationhood.

Dennis Kucinich

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We need to defend principles like democracy, freedom of speech, gender equality, and the rule of law through exemplifying these on a global scale, not through the same cynical, isolationist policies which have eroded these so-called 'British' values across the rest of the world.

Deeyah Khan

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Michael did it all. I am telling you that he is the most brilliant father. Almost before the baby needed something, he knew what it was.

Debbie Rowe

FatherI AmBabyYouBrilliantKnew

I make movies that nobody will see. I've made movies that even I have never seen.

Christopher Walken

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Great drama is all about conflict, and what's a better conflict than Republican-Democrat?

Allison Janney

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The feminist movement is way bigger than the word. I don't police people on what they call themselves, but equality and a general sense of togetherness are really important to me.

Petra Collins

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